In a campaign season of new lows, this past weekend saw the 2016 election pass into the deepest, darkest, most sordid depths of despair. There was theFriday afternoon video. There was Donald Trump's "press conference" with four women as political props. And of course, there was the debate itself. Longtime CBS correspondent Bob Schieffer has seen plenty of presidential debates, but he readily admitted he'd never seen anything like what we were all subjected to last night. Schieffer described the tawdry antics and pitiful level of discourse as "just disgraceful," and did a fine job of summing the whole thing up in just a minute and a half.

Like Schieffer, Joy Reid zeroed in on Trump's pledge to jail his political opponent. As they both so adeptly put it, this is the kind of thing you'd expect to see in a third world dictatorship, not the United States of America. As if you were in any doubt that Trump has more than a bit of a sweet tooth for authoritarianism.

Now more than ever, we need commentators to resist giving Trump a perilously low bar to clear. These two did that last night.